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Apr 10, 2019

The Parasite and the Whale

There was recently an interesting bunfight on Twitter between Paul Sztorc, author of the Truthcoin paper that laid the ground for Augur and other decentralized oracle designs, and veteran block size hawk Peter Todd. Paul wants Bitcoin to support drivechains, a kind of second-layer system that pays miners to validate…

Bitcoin

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The Parasite and the Whale
The Parasite and the Whale
Bitcoin

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Aug 21, 2018

Realitio, the crowd-sourced smart contract oracle: Now in real-money trial on mainnet

Last year we announced our smart contract oracle that we dubbed “Snopes Meets Mechanical Turk on a Blockchain”. Today we’re excited to tell you about the mainnet release of this project, now called Realitio. Realitio is a crowd-based oracle which relies on a system of escalating bonds to generate correct…

Blockchain

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Realitio, the crowd-sourced smart contract oracle: Now in real-money trial on mainnet
Realitio, the crowd-sourced smart contract oracle: Now in real-money trial on mainnet
Blockchain

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May 14, 2018

Reality Check Bug Bounty

Last year we announced our on-chain smart contract oracle system, Reality Check, which we described as Snopes meets mechanical Turk on a blockchain. We’ve completed our audit and we’re announcing a bug bounty for the smart contracts and documentation, as of commit 19d72f85f821c3e27400fc0f3514b9bddb64ae59. It covers the following contracts: RealityCheck.sol Arbitrator.sol …

Ethereum

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Ethereum

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Oct 10, 2017

Snopes meets Mechanical Turk: Announcing Reality Check, a crowd-sourced smart contract oracle

We are now live on mainnet at reality.eth. When we started building the Reality Keys smart contract oracle in 2013, we assumed that most of the data people would want would be able to be pulled from existing data feed APIs. But in practice we found that a lot of…

Blockchain

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Snopes meets Mechanical Turk: Announcing Reality Check, a crowd-sourced smart contract oracle
Snopes meets Mechanical Turk: Announcing Reality Check, a crowd-sourced smart contract oracle
Blockchain

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Mar 11, 2017

Why Ethereum is great for payments

Tech people love cool new things, and when we talk about Ethereum we hardly ever talk about it as a way of doing things Bitcoin could already do. …

Bitcoin

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Why Ethereum is great for payments
Why Ethereum is great for payments
Bitcoin

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Feb 1, 2017

What happens when you try to fork an Ethereum token?

It’s easy to create a token on the Ethereum network. Forking one is also, in theory, a simple business. A token typically consists of a database of balances, some code showing how to access it and, potentially, some other code that does other stuff. …

Ethereum

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Ethereum

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·Aug 12, 2016

Get the facts, hard-fork all the things

Dumb smart contracts There has long been a school of thought that says that smart contracts are mostly pointless. Most interesting contracts depend on some outside event happening in the real world: A stock price going up or down, an election being won or lost, an earthquake in Tokyo happening or not happening, …

Blockchain

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Get the facts, hard-fork all the things
Get the facts, hard-fork all the things
Blockchain

7 min read

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